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| ISHERWOOD: AM CALLS ON PUBLIC HEALTH WALES TO INVOLVE LIST OF CONCERNED FLINTSHIRE RESIDENTS IN PADESWOOD CANCER LINK INVESTIGATION | | Print | |
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Press release /Datganiad i’r wasg Tel: 07728090861Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.markisherwood.com June 02 2010
ISHERWOOD: AM CALLS ON PUBLIC HEALTH WALES TO INVOLVE LIST OF CONCERNED FLINTSHIRE RESIDENTS IN PADESWOOD CANCER LINK INVESTIGATION
AN Assembly Member has provided Public Health Wales with a list of Flintshire residents all detailing their own experience of cancer and their concern it could be linked to the cement plant in Padeswood, Flintshire. Welsh Conservative AM, Mark Isherwood, who himself lives in the vicinity of the plant and whose own daughter was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer at the age of 19, has told the Director of Health Protection at Public Health Wales, Dr Mike Simmons, that all the people detailed on the list wish to be involved in the Public Health Wales investigation and calls for them all to be contacted.
Mr Isherwood, who will now be meeting Public Health Wales in Mold on Friday (June 4), has been approached by concerned residents living in Leeswood, Pontybodkin, Padeswood, Ffrith, Mynydd Isa, Buckley and Aston Park.
The Leeswood resident was employed at the Padeswood Cement works for 23 years. He has had cancer himself and advises that many of his former colleagues have also had cancer, several of whom have now died.
He wants the investigation to establish how many people identified as having or having had cancer in the locality actually worked at the plant.
The resident of Aston Park advises there are many cases of cancer there and adds that her mother has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer. A couple from Buckley, advise that a non scientific study of 22 residences on a 1 mile stretch of Liverpool Road, Buckley, showed that there was a cancer sufferer in 12 of those 22 residences and have been told by her Oncologist that such a cluster in a confined area was highly unusual. (For details of all the cases submitted please see attachment) In his letter to Dr Simmons, Mr Isherwood writes: “You will be aware that there has been long standing concern regarding apparent high local incidents of cancer and possible linkage to this plant. A full health impact investigation can only therefore be in the interests of local communities and Hanson Cement.“Such an investigation will need to include both local communities and other communities that fall within the kiln's plume grounding area. I understand that this will therefore extend to areas such as The Wirral. “Having established the number, type and concentration of cancer cases, it will also be necessary to examine whether the age profiles identified deviate from the normal ranges expected. “You will also see on the attached sheet the concern expressed by a former employee of the plant that investigation should identify how many of persons affected actually worked at the plant. “The new kiln has been operational for less than a decade. If any linkage with the cement works is identified, it will be necessary to establish whether this relates to the new kiln or to those previously operating on the site.
“However, if unusual cancer concentrations are identified which cannot be linked to the plant it will be necessary to establish and address their actual causes.”
On April 15, Mr Isherwood wrote to the Health Minister in support of Penyffordd Community Council's call for an investigation to establish whether Hanson's Padeswood Cement Plant could be linked to cancer cases among residents living in nearby communities.
In the Health Minister's April 26 reply, she advised that Public Health Wales had been asked "to establish a group of stake holders to engage in a dialogue about the emissions at the site and to discuss concerns of ill health of residents around the Padeswood Plant". She further advised that Public Health Wales would be engaging with other stake holders such as Environment Agency, Local Health Board and Health Protection Agency. ENDS North Wales AM Mark Isherwood, Shadow Minister for Social Justice and Housing |
